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27 Apr 2026
Time: 12:15  - 14:00

Location: Seminar Room 4, Department of History, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Anna-Katharina Osterlow: "Training the African Vanguard of the Computer Age: Early Computing in Nigeria and Senegal, 1963-1985"

Research Seminar "African History"
29 Apr 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Hildegard Titus & Dag Henrichsen: "Decolonising Namibia’s Queer History"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
06 May 2026
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: Seminar Room 1, Department of History, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Ettore Morelli: "The woman with copper earrings: fragments of a history of power in southern Africa, c. 1200–c. 1800"

Research Seminar "African History"
06 May 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Bongani Kona & Catherine Boulle: "'Arrested Time' – Field Notes from the Making of 'Time, Paper, Bone'"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
11 May 2026
Time: 12:15  - 14:00

Location: Seminar Room 4, Department of History, Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Department of History

Colloquium

Eric Burton: "Financing Liberation Struggles – Africa’s Hubs of Decolonization and the Creation of a Global Division of Anticolonial Labor, 1958-1966"

Research Seminar "African History"
20 May 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Dirk Moses: Title tbc

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium in collaboration with Middle Eastern Studies
22 May 2026
Time: 16:00  - 18:00

Location: Meeting point: Main entrance Missionshaus, Missionstrasse 21, 4055 Basel

Organizer: Mission 21

Public event

City tour: "(De-)colonial art in Basel"

Mission 21
27 May 2026
Time: 18:15  - 20:15

Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel

Organizer: ZASB | UNAM | BAB

Colloquium

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium: Closing Discussion

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium
26 Aug 2026 - 28 Aug 2026

Location: University of Basel, main building ("Kollegienhaus")

Organizer: ZASB

Congress / Conference / Symposium

Conference: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations"

Joint SGAS/SSEA & VAD Conference, Basel, 26-28 August 2026

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Exhibition: "The path to the beyond"

How do different societies imagine the transition from this life to the afterworld? What are the underlying conceptions, and what path does the deceased person or their soul travel on? The exhibition at the Museum der Kulturen Basel shows…

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